Quotes About Narrative

Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself.

Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it.

I won't be one of the hundreds telling you that being alive flows like a story you write consciously, deliberately, full of linear narrative, foreshadowing, repetition, motifs. The emotional beats come down where they should, last as long as they should, end where they should, and that should come from somewhere real and natural, not from the tyranny of the theatre, the utter hegemony of fiction.

Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That's what death is for. That's why they keep telling this story. It's the only story.

Anyway, nobody bothers with real beginnings anymore. We stopped making up stories about the creation of the world ages ago.

I'm an extra in your story. Well, you're an extra in mine, boy.

Narrators may go where they please.

I think I shall never be free. I think I traded me freedom for a better story.

It was only a dream. Sometimes they say that, at the end of stories, in the land where Milo was born. And then I woke up—it was only a dream. Stories here do not end like that. I cannot wake up. I do not sleep.

So I talk to the dead. They're the only ones who can see the whole story. All they've got is story.

You and I, we're no good at telling a story straight. It won't come off right. Like a dog reciting a sonnet. Impressive, but how much better to let him howl?

bottom-up modalities (primary sensory, somatic, movement, rhythmic) help establish basic homeostatic stability will top-down treatments such as insight, reflection, trauma integration, narrative development, social development, or affect enhancement be effective (Kliem & Jones, 2008; Perry, 2008, 2009).

Does an Asian American narrative always have to return to the mother?

It makes me worried about the future, about this nation's inborn capacity to forget, about the powers that be who always win and take over the narrative. Already, "woke" is a hashtag that's now mocked, when being awake is not a singular revelation but a long

Sometimes you need to explain your experiences in order to understand them yourself.

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The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip.

Dentre meus novos deveres, tinha certeza, finalmente nenhum seria indigno de ser narrado à minha mulher. Por fim, eu me encarregaria de um trabalho cujo objetivo era melhorar a vida, em vez de assistir a seu fim.

They were, all of them, lost to a narrative untethered to anything he recognized as true. Their mad conception of Mr. Lincoln as some kind of cloven-hoofed devil's scion, their complete disregard—denial—of the humanity of the enslaved, their fabulous notions of what evils the Federal government intended for them should their cause fail—all of it was ingrained so deep, beyond the reach of reasonable dialogue or evidence.

But the stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip. They pull life from whatever surfaces they cling to, while the roots, maybe, wither and rot until you cannot find the place from which the seed of the vine has truly sprung. That was my task: to uncover those earliest roots. And he had directed me to the seedbed.

I'm realizing how short people's memories are, and what's written here could help them remember what it was like for us. This is not just my story, or your mother's, or your Uncle Joseph's, or Farmer Ben's. This is the story of so many people who lived through those times like us. This is our story. All of us. And it's important not to forget.

History takes time. History makes memory.

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.

I am writing My Life so that I may laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.